Mini MBA: Maintenance Management & Technology

Introduction:

Maintenance Best Practices are critical for every successful individual and company. This training course has been designed to benefit both qualified new professionals as well as experienced professionals who might need to refresh their skills. It covers all the fundamentals of Maintenance that a suitably qualified professional would be expected to carry out during his duty starting with the first steps and building up in a staircase fashion to a fully functional maintenance organization. This will provide an ‘MBA level’ experience in terms of content, instruction, discussion and team exercises

Targeted Groups:

Maintenance Supervisors and Superintendents
Reliability Engineers
Operational Professionals who are interested in maintenance reliability and asset management
Safety and Integrity Professionals
Other Professionals involved in Process Improvement

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

Provide a step-by-step guide to maintenance best practice starting with foundations and building up to best practice that will deliver maximum business benefits
Instruct Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
Provide opportunities to discuss the application of these best practices
Provide an opportunity to learn these concepts through practical exercises
Understand the Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
Understand a range of equipment failures and their implications to the operational organization
Design a maintenance plan for the upkeep and maintenance inspections of static and rotating plant

Targeted Competencies:

Fundamentals of maintenance, reliability and asset management
Reliability modeling and failure modes for rotating and stationary machinery
Learning from major failures
Condition-based maintenance technologies
Selection of appropriate maintenance strategies in asset management
Maintenance theory and practice
Maintenance work processes
Asset Management
Failure Analysis
Preventive Maintenance

Course Content:
Unit 1: An Overview of Key Maintenance Work Processes:

Introduction to Maintenance Management
Definitions of key terms
Types of Maintenance
Reactive, planned and improvement jobs
Preventive and Proactive

Unit 2: Maintenance Management Systems:

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems
Developing Maintenance Key Performance Indicators

Unit 3: Preventive Maintenance and Maintenance Strategy:

Maintenance Organisation Structure and Policies
Developing and Implementing a Preventive Maintenance Program
Applying Reliability Based principles to Maintenance Strategy Development

Unit 4: Maintenance Logistics and Cost Control:

Managing Maintenance Spare Parts and Logistics
Optimizing Spare Parts Inventory Levels
Maintenance Budgeting
Controlling Maintenance Costs
Introduction to Life Cycle Cost Concepts

Unit 5: Maintenance Team Work:

Engineering, Production & Maintenance Teams
Benefits of Integrated teams
Motivation and empowerment
Total Productive Maintenance Concepts
Implementing Team-Based Continuous Improvement in Maintenance

Unit 6: Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis - Causes of Machinery Failure in Rotating Equipment:

Cavitation in Pumps
Tripping of Turbines
Surging in Compressors
Wear Mechanisms: Fatigue, Fretting, and Corrosion
Fundamental Machine Problems: Balance Problems, Alignment Problems, Machinery Mounting Problems
Fundamentals of Maintenance and Asset Management